Suberites topsenti Burton 1929 ...

• Main Authors: Plotkin, Alexander S., Janussen, Dorte
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Hadromerida; Suberitidae; Suberites; Suberites topsenti; Antarc*; Antarctic; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235814; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6235814

Suberites topsenti (Burton, 1929) (Figs. 16, 17) Synonymy Suberella topsenti — Burton 1929: 446, pl. IV (fig. 5). Laxosuberella topsenti— Burton 1930: 675. Suberites montiniger — Topsent 1915: 39 –40; Koltun 1964: 25 –26; 1976: 169. Suberites topsenti —van Soest 2002: 242. Material examined SMF 10582 (1 specimen): PS67/078­11; SMF 10583–10584 (2 specimens): PS67/110­2. Description External morphology. Sponges are compact, massive, irregularly shaped (figs. 16A–C). The dimensions may reach 35x15 x 11 mm. Surface is minutely hispid or velvety, grey­coloured, with a single osculum of 0.4– 1 mm in diameter. Consistency is dense and compressible. Skeleton. The choanosomal skeleton is dense, confusedly reticulate, constituted by long spicules (fig. 16D). The ectosomal skeleton is made of the smaller spicules arranged in bouquets (fig. 16E). Spicules. Altogether 130 spicules from 2 specimens were measured. Two size categories are well distinguished (fig. 17A). The number of measured spicules of each category is ... : Published as part of Plotkin, Alexander S. & Janussen, Dorte, 2008, Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) of the deep Weddell Sea, Antarctic *, pp. 95-135 in Zootaxa 1866 on pages 128-129, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183878 ...